By: Kelly Rogers

Kelly Rogers — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:37:00 +0000

Wow! This is what I truly call a very good guide, full of tips. I like this article so much. 🙂 I really with I good visit the City of Lights with my husband. 🙂

By: Valerieg

Valerieg — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:33:09 +0000

Not getting accurate info on Paris/cheap. Try their Salvation Army, Cling. Flea market, and the Arab sections, side streets and street sales. Go in July. Best sales everywhere.

By: gelizsmith

gelizsmith — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:10:59 +0000

I spend part of my life working in Paris. Here are more tips for fashionable & delicious survival: Fashion: First, most department stores (like Printemps, BHV) have a form you can fill out to receive a discount on most goods (unfortunately, not high-end stuff). Visit the info desk and fill out the form, when when you check out you receive the discount (this is non-French only). Second, July is THE huge shopping month. While the temperatures are unfortunately high, everything is on sale. Have fun. Food: Galleries Lafayette also has a great top-floor cafeteria. Eat inside and stare out at a view of the back of the Opera Garnier. Good food, good prices… then walk over to their souvenir area for some of the best Tshirt prices (good quality, cute looks) in town (also cute hats, scarves, jewelery, and stuff). Same place: go outside, one floor up and enjoy taking photos from the roof, and you can eat there, too; as I recall, pricier than the interior cafe. I really recommend the cafe at G-L: for that part of town is has the best selection, seating, prices… and the food is GOOD. Just want a break? They serve Coke, coffee, and sweet pastries you’ll love. More food? The Louvre Carousel, off Rue de Rivoli, is an underground shopping arcade and foodcourt. I recommend Paul’s: quiches sweet adn savory, both, and good coffee. It can be loud here, but cheaper than any of the Louvre eateries and easier to get a seat. Clean bathrooms and ATM’s are right there, and so is the Metro. Monoprix: best deal ever. Their grocery stores are great, their quick shops are great, their clothes/accessories/beauty products great… and you can buy all your girlfriends/sisters/mothers nifty French stuff for a fraction of expensive shops. Not touristy, really good stuff for your friends who are beauty product mavens (I brought several girlfriends back exclusive color of lipstick—Monoprix Rouge—available only there, Maybelline brand. Great packaging, very French. They have wonderful scarves, gloves, hats, jewelry—all inexpensive but noy cheap looking.

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